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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: BIOS
Keywords: bios at harddisk
Message-ID: <[250c74a6:5436.1]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 12 Sep 89 04:00:05 GMT
References: <3942@wpi.wpi.edu>
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>Item 5436 (0 resps) by jwhitson at wpi.wpi.edu on Mon 11 Sep 89 19:35
>[John C Whitson KB2GNC]    Subject: BIOS
>(21 lines)
>	If it is pertinent, the controller is a Western Digital WD1002-WA2
>	Revision RX1, dated 1984, and the disk is a Seagate ST-251 (40ms).
>	Right now it runs as type 3, but it is WICKED SLOW (Norton DI of 0.3).
>
>	Thanks for all your help in advance!

Get a copy of Ontrack Disk Manager (it should have come with the drive, if
not complain to the people you bought the drive from) and use that to
reformat.  Use an interleave of at LEAST three, proably four.  I'd bet that
your interleave is set to 2:1, which is not enough -- and thus the reads are
"missing". 

Alternately get a WD1006-MM2 for the system, and run 1:1 interleave.  That
combination will smoke, and work well.

Don't bother updating the BIOS -- it won't make a difference.

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